Open Enrollment Begins May 1
The Cardinal Local School District open enrollment period for the 2017-18 school year will run from May 1 to Aug. 1. Open enrollment is for students who live outside of the Cardinal Local School District and do not currently attend one of its schools.
Applications will be available in the board office located at 15982 East High St. on May 1 beginning 8 a.m.
As a reminder, enrollment is done on a first-come, first-served basis and is dependent upon class size. For more information, contact the board office at 440-632-0261.
Third Grade Reading Projects
Mrs. Melissa Cardinal’s third-graders love their reading projects. Students worked together in groups to create a project on a book they read and then presented their project to the class. They created scenes from “Friendship According to Humphrey,” “A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning,” “Snow Treasure” and “The Boxcar Children, Book 1.”
Stotts Plastic
Students in Ms. Stotts’s seventh-grade science classes are investigating the difference between mixtures and compounds. They combined hot milk with vinegar and created casein plastic.
Casein plastic is a polymer made from the protein molecules in milk. Students determined that the plastic formed is a compound, since a chemical change took place and the plastic is unlike the original ingredients of milk and vinegar.
Teachers Receive Grants
The Cardinal Local School District is excited to share that three of its teachers have received grants to be used to incorporate various materials into their classroom lessons.
Seventh-grade science teacher Sharon Stotts has received a $180 grant from the Geauga County Retired Teachers Association. The money will be used to purchase a compost tumbler to help students observe and study the process of composting organic waste.
The Partners in Science group has approved a $750 dollar grant for eighth-grade science teacher Dave Bronson. Mr. Bronson will use the money to fund supplies and transportation as his students test water samples found within the Geauga Park District. Students will then test the samples for pH and various metallic ions such as copper, iron and lead in addition to polyatomic ions like phosphate and sulfates. Results will be written up in a lab report and then shared back with the park district over a period of a few years.
District speech therapist Melissa Butler has received a $15,148 grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation to purchase My Reading Coach software licenses. The software will help assess reading comprehension and be used with students in grades three to eight.
CMS Paw Pride
Congratulations to the CMS Paw Pride winners for the week ending April 13: fifth-graders Hanna H. and Jazlyn S.; sixth-graders Ray K. and Jeremy R.; seventh-graders Chase S. and Olivia W.; and eighth-graders Arianna L. and Daisy Y. Way to go everyone and keep up the great work.
